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The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and French president, Francois Hollande, are demanding explanations from Washington about the espionage revelations For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://ow.ly/2B5kjo

These disasters do not match in terms of scale of loss, but some features are the same: the desperation of the passengers to find a new life, the involvement of ruthless people-smugglers, the wooden hulks in which they sought illusory safety.

(DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images) An opposition fighter stands over seven year old Ahmad Jabir, who was injured alongside some his family members by a shell, as he lies on a X-Ray machine after he brought the boy to a hospital in the town of Al-Bara, in Syria’s northwestern province Idlib on July 10, 2013.

Rebel and diplomatic sources said it was Saudi Arabia which nudged rebel brigades operating in and around Damascus to announce this week that they have united under a single command comprising 50 groups and numbering some thousands of fighters.